Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds

by Helen Gordon, Sarah Cullum (Narrator)

From the secret fossils of London to the three-billion-year-old rocks of the Scottish Highlands, and from state-of-the-art Californian laboratories to one of the world's most dangerous volcanic complexes hidden beneath the green hills of western Naples, set out on an adventure to those parts of the world where the Earth's life-story is written into the landscape.

Helen Gordon turns a novelist's eye on the extraordinary scientists who are piecing together this planetary drama. She gets to grips with the theory that explains how it all works - plate tectonics, a breakthrough as significant in its way as evolution or quantum mechanics, but much younger than either, and still with many secrets to reveal. And she looks to the future of our world, with or without us.

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Published May 25, 2021

About the author

Helen Gordon is the co-author of Being A Writer and author of Landfall, a novel published by Penguin. Her journalism has appeared in Intelligent Life and the Guardian. She is former associate editor of Granta magazine, lives in London and teaches creative writing at the University of Hertfordshire.

Reviews

[Judith · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really interesting book which covers subjects I’d never considered before, such as long term safe disposal of nuclear waste. If I’ve got a quibble, it is rather chatty - however I am very glad I’ve read it.